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" Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market. "
Louis Navellier
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" Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits. "
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" We really believe in the earnings. We're very proud that often we do well in the down market. But you know, there are some markets where they just lose liquidity, like 2001, 2008. "
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" Since we try and take a fairly buy-and-hold approach to our newsletter portfolios and don't sell at every whipsaw, we want to have a mix of stocks that will perform at both ends of the oscillation. "
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" I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation. "
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" I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure. "
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" Don't punish small businesses with over-regulation. "
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" We test everything on a one- and a three-year cycle. And you want to stress-test a model, and the three-year test usually does that because you have a growth and value bias. You have different interest rate environments. "
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" I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index. "
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" One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow. "
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" We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance. "
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" There's something we calculate called an alpha, and that's the stock's return that's independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags. "
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Only
You
" I expect my return to be 18 to 25 percent in 1988, while the Standard & Poor's 500 should rise 8 to 12 percent and OTC stocks gain 15 percent as liquidity emerges. "
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Rise
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" Social Security was designed to give a few years of modest benefits to people whose bodies were worn out through coal mining, factory work and other physically demanding labor. "
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Work
Years
" I still love the semiconductor industry. "
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Semiconductor
Industry
" There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes. "
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How
Market
Year
" Internally, when we manage portfolios, we figure out what works in large cap, what works in mid cap, what works in small cap. Generally speaking, large cap stocks want earning stability, strong cash flow, margin expansion. "
Louis Navellier
Want
Strong
Cap
" I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market. "
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Stocks
Stock Market
" There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar. "
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Companies
Dollar
Profit
" Now quantitatively we rank things on something called alpha over standard deviation, which is the return independent of the market divided by volatility. Usually, to get a high ranking, you need some buying pressure. "
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Need
Divided
You
" I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available. "
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Education
Software
Like
" There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion. "
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Flow
Create
" What we do is we test what works on Wall Street. And sometimes it is earnings momentum, and sometimes it's earnings surprises. Sometimes it's price-to-sales cash flow, and then we put together our stock selection models. "
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Flow
Together
Street
" In college, I was told the market can't be beat. "
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College
Beat
Market
" Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks. "
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" As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight. "
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Double
Rule
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" I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took. "
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" I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one. "
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Beat
Stock Market
" There's 4,000-plus stocks out there, and sometimes it gets a little confusing. And we like them to start with the portfolio grader, but if they'd like to see how I use the system and pick stocks - we offer that as well. "
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See
System
Start
" If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds. "
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Come And Go
You
Our
" One of our big challenges with the newsletter is that everyone thinks big stocks are safe. That's not true at all. They're only safe if the money is flowing there. "
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True
Everyone
Safe